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By ADRIENNE KOCH ();

April 11, 1948,

, Section Book Review, Page BR1, Column , words

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TWO hundred and five-years ago this Tuesday, Thomas Jefferson was born. He became a sensitive, speculative, complex, resourceful and predominantly good man. He was a man not easy to depict in the round, including his temperament, the individual cast of his ideas, and the decisive behavior which marked his stellar role as the greatest philosopher-statesman of this nation's history.

April 11, 1948

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